Sentences with phrase «rate increase»

Morgan Stanley Chief US Economist Ellen Zentner forecasts that the global headwinds of lowflation are now likely to delay the Fed's first rate increase to early 2016.

The Fed's rate increase — the first in more than a decade — is the start of what Morgan Stanley economists expect to be an unprecedented period of tightening.

Any future interest rate increase will result in higher monthly payments and therefore less disposable income and less financial satisfaction.»

With the interest rate increase, debt becomes more and more expensive.

I do not see a case for a further rate increase on current facts and remain very concerned that macroeconomic policy has inadequately internalized all the aspects of large declines in the neutral real rate and secular stagnation risks.

The province's energy board could refuse TransCanada's request for the huge rate increase that it needs to help bankroll its replacement natural gas pipeline.

Rates for home loans spiked along with a surge in Treasury yields as Federal Reserve officials guided market expectations toward an interest rate increase next week, mortgage provider Freddie Mac said Thursday.

We may see a different tone from the Fed in its upcoming meeting in March, leaving the door open for a June rate increase.

The Federal Reserve's (Fed's) rate increase this week was widely expected, and focus is now on what's next for 2018.

Should a rate increase have been so clearly signaled?

This has caused many investors to shift their bond allocation in anticipation of a rate increase and price losses in bonds.

Assuming that the language surrounding the rate increase on Thursday is in line with what the market expects, I would be surprised if there are major market gyrations after the Fed statement.

Here you can see that rate increase along with the performance of these bonds over that period:

Some worry about what will happen to them in the months ahead, especially if the Fed's eventual interest - rate increase becomes a trigger for capital flight.

But as the Fed prepares to make a historical rate increase for the first time in nearly a decade, some critics question whether the central bank administered its monetary medicine too long.

Softer consumer spending posed a risk to a much anticipated mid-year interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve.

For more on the dynamics and impact of a potential Fed rate increase, be sure to check out the full BlackRock Investment Institute paper.

The received wisdom (from, as you say, a very different era) is that if unemployment gets too low then we should raise rates, but what is not said loud enough is that the specific purpose of the rate increase is to re-unemploy some other people in order to «cool things down».

The incremental fiscal stimulus of about $ 2 billion for increased employment insurance benefits and limiting the rate increase in EI premium rates to 5 cents in 2011 saved 5,000 jobs (no wonder increases in EI premium rates are called job killers).

I decided to base my calculations on the 0.5 % rate increase because it was tailored to the rest of the other numbers I'm working with, but keep Green's calculations in mind.

The likelihood of an interest - rate increase in Canada by the end of the year was at 41 percent on Wednesday, according to overnight index swaps data compiled by Bloomberg.

Other Fed officials, however, have been on record as stating that the U.S. economy is strong enough to weather — and indeed should weather — another benchmark rate increase, certainly by the end of this year.

The first reason, developed in that blog, was that the Fed should have signaled a desire to exceed its two percent inflation target during periods of protracted recovery and low unemployment and in this context to signal that a rate increase was off the table for September and quite likely the rest of the year.

Even apart from the desirability of allowing inflation to rise above two percent in a happy economic scenario GDP, labor market and inflation expectations data all make a compelling case against a rate increase.

A discrimination suit based on the rate increase is an uphill battle and not likely to succeed.

Whenever the Fed decides to act, the initial rate increase will be small — a quarter of a percentage point — but it looms large psychologically because it will be the first increase in short - term rates by the Fed since June 2006.

While it remains uncertain whether the rate increase will pass legal muster, by focusing solely on short - term financial consequences rather than long - term growth and innovation, the PUD is shortchanging Washington's citizens by driving new technology businesses away from the state:

Second, if between now and the rate increase, the economy slows down, then the Equity ETF will fall in price but the high dividends will provide a cushion until the economy eventually recovers.

For that reason, at archerETF, we believe that any interest rate increase is still some time off, say late this year or early next.

In contrast to the PUD's rate increase that sends the message that Chelan County does not want HDL companies, Iowa has attracted HDL companies with millions of dollars in tax incentives and other benefits.

Most courts considering laws that state governmental agencies have claimed are necessary for fiscal responsibility, which Chelan County claims is the purpose of this rate increase, have concluded that the laws are rationally related to a legitimate government interest.

If you lose Bitcoin (but possibly gain dollars / euros / etc due to an exchange rate increase), you lose.

For a state that has been a thriving location for virtual currency mining, the rate increase will likely have a chilling effect on innovation.

Malachi Salcido, a longtime local businessman in Chelan County and owner of bitcoin mining company Salcido Connection, believes that the rate increase is based, at least in part, on the PUD's lack of familiarity with Bitcoin:

Daniel Conover, founder and chief operating officer of Bitcoin mining company Hash the Planet, one such HDL customer, is uncertain of the company's future in Washington following the hike: «with the rate increase, we couldn't survive.»

The reaction is likely to be muted at the next rate increase.

In the event of an interest rate increase, these homeowners would be able to make their monthly mortgage payments.

Overlapping periods are eliminated by choosing the period with the highest rate increase.

Rates affect bond investments, but they also affect all other investments in some form or another because higher rates mean that investors have other options in which to invest (dividend and REIT investors know this all too well in the recent rate increase).

Also, bills have typically traded below other money market rates during tightening cycles, as they do now; periods where bills trade at or above other rates have been the exception and not the rule.36 Thus, the smaller increase in bill yields than in rates on other term instruments is not surprising, and I do not read it as undermining the general conclusion that the policy rate increase was effective in firming money market conditions.37

This implies that the CEIFB is required to recommend a rate increase of 10 cents a year to at least 2015.

Most economists surveyed by Bloomberg project the Fed will announce its first rate increase in nine years in September.

Treasuries extended declines from October, pushing 10 - year yields to a five - week high, as the probability of a Federal Reserve interest - rate increase by year - end hovered near 50 percent.

Uncertainty about the U.S. presidential race in the near term may produce periods of volatility for the U.S. dollar, yet RBC maintains that the U.S. currency will post modest gains against the Euro, Canadian dollar and sterling as markets look for a U.S. Federal Reserve policy rate increase in the first half of 2017.

Treasury yields rose on Tuesday as investors wait for the Federal Reserve to begin its April policy meeting, where a rate increase is not expected.

[10] Adding a potential Fed rate increase of 0.25 percentage point to the average credit card APR of 14.87 %, the average household would owe $ 919 in credit card interest per year.

San Francisco Fed President John Williams, said the yield - curve inversion was a powerful recession indicator but didn't see signs of it happening soon, and said he backed a gradual rate increase path.

Global market volatility persisted this week, as investors remained nervous on China's slowing economy along with a possible interest rate increase at the U.S. Federal Reserve's mid-September meeting.

Fair enough, I was probably thinking of the upcoming federal tax rate increase.

Treasury yields rise on Tuesday as traders position themselves ahead of the conclusion of a two - day Federal Reserve meeting commencing Tuesday, that is expected to reveal an upbeat outlook for the economy and culminate in the sixth interest - rate increase since December 2015.